Estado de los repositorios institucionales venezolanos y sus revistas científicas

Abstract

Open Access (OA) has become one of the most expanded mechanisms inside the scientific community around the world. Due to that, this research aimed to describe the current state of the Institutional Repositories (IR) of Venezuela. Apart from defining its origins, software and licenses, periodic publications were also analyzed. To identify them, the digital repositories catalogued in the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) were taken as a reference, then, it was determined which had university registration and checklists to collect data were used. It was concluded that, in the country, there are eight IR in the ROAR. Most of them use DSpace to their development and some Creative Common licenses; the scientific journals of the universities are present only in 50% of them, from which the 57.2% are inactive or dead. Facing this, it is recommended that scientific managers and editors create policies to benefit the AA that guarantee visibility in scientific production in the country, and maintain the periodicity of the existent publications, as this generates greater quality.